Weschler explains: “Over the past six months, Hockney has fashioned literally hundreds, probably over a thousand, such images, often sending out four or five a day to a group of about a dozen friends, and not really caring what happens to them after that. (He assumes the friends pass them along through the digital ether.) These are, mind you, not second-generation digital copies of images that exist in some other medium: their digital expression constitutes the sole (albeit multiple) original of the image.”

WOW!!! I didn't know about this application… must look into it although I prefer painting with a real brush… but what do they say… don't knock until you've tried it!Merci for the story!FifiBTW… Once sat next to him at a symphony performance… he fell asleep and snored a bit… LOL!!!

Oooh, I just love David Hockney. Love LOVE love him. I never get tired of seeing his work.

The iPhone paintings sort of remind me of David Byrne's PowerPoint art. I have so much admiration for fine artist who have no snobbery when it comes to the medium, who can and do make art out of anything and everything. Thank you for bringing this to my attention.

Yes, while I prefer his canvas work, I still love his quiet observational style. I always liked how his art sought to capture a single moment and the fact that these images were created via a mobile phone, which to me, exemplifies of-the-moment technology, I think it's an appropriate medium for him.